Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1887-05-06

now. During the past week about 300 Ne
groes have left Virginia to seek employment
in New York.
DIR, j. S. Martin, Presiding Elder of Win
chester District. has appointed Rev. A. P.
Boude, editor of the Rockbridge 'sNews" of
Lexington. TO fill the vacancy occasioned by
the death of Rev. W. L. Lynch at Berryville
Circuit. Mr.. Clinton Boude will now have
charge of the paper.
Speaking of the closing exercises of the
school at Low Moor, taught by Miss Teresa
Scherer of Staunton, the Covington "Senti-
mel" says the exhibition ''eclipsed anything
of the kind the Low Moor people ever wit
messed"
correspondent visiting Richmond and
writing to the Lynchburg "Virginian" about
the Confederate veterans in business there,
says: II stumbled on one of them to-day.
His head and face are more or less dressed in
gray. was sauntering along Broad street
| gazing at the old signs and the new, when
I my attention was struck by the sign, Hunter
d Co. inquired within" and found old
Hunter of Co. A, 44th Virginia Volunteers,
| moved here from Staunton."
DR.. Miller, the faith cure DOCTOR who
once visited Staunton and treated many peo-
pie by the 'laying on of hands, at Kalorama,
ias reappeared at Martinsyille, Henry county,
Va. On Sunday he preached at the Christian
church there to large audience.
w. M. Clements is again Manager of the
B. O. lines east of the Ohio, after an alb
sence for several years on other roads. Satur-
| day, when he made his temperance at Graf
ton, w. Va, the people turned out and greet
ed him with cannon firing and brass band,
the Mayor welcomed him, reception at the
Grafton Hotel was given him, and across the
road was hung flag inscribed s'Welcome to
the old Boss"
Rev. TiIotson A. Morgan, a prominent
member of the Baltimore Conference of the
M. E. Church, South, died at Mt. Washington,
Md, Monday. He was boru in Bath county,
Va, in 1885, and had father, brother, and
son in the Methodist ministry.
While the Rev. W. c. Schaeffer, pastor of
the English Lutheran church at Richmond,
was preaching at the re-dedication of his
church on Sunday afternoon, some one enter
ed his residence and stole $50 worth of jewel
ry and SO forth
Hon. William w. Corcoran, of Washington,
D. c., pays taxes on SO, 100, 900 worth of
property.
The widow and family of the late John W.
the sum of 50, $50, on compromise, for dam
ages claimed by the family of deceased, who
was run over by G. & o. freight engine at
the Ronceverte Station Dec. IA, and killed
Montgomery Buchanan, who died recently
in Roekbridge county at the age of seventy
| eight years, was native of Augusta and in
his life time had exclusively by farming saved
enough to buy and pay for nine hundred
| acres of the best farming land on Hays creek
in Rockbridge.
Noticing the death there last week of Mrs.
Dora Beecher, mother of Mr.. M. B. Beecher
of Staunton, the Richmond estate" says:
'sShe was widely known and beloved, and
respected alike by Jew and GENTLE. She was
the mother of nine children, five of whom
survive"
A letter to the Harrisonburg esprit" says
that while Mr.. A. Stuart Houff of Augusta,
was returning home from visit to Rocking
ham in wagon with his mother, the horse
ran off near Naked Greek throwing both out.
Mr.. Houf was thrown head foremost into the
creek. Neither mother nor son were seriously
hurt
Rev. E. Fl. Amis, graduate of Union The
illogical Seminary at Hampden Sidney, has
| accepted an invitation to fill tho pulpits of
Monterey, Hightown, Pisgah and Crabbottom
Presbyterian churches for year. He is ex-
] pected to take charge in few weeks.
In Highland county last week Rev. J. M.
Plowden, a Presbyterian minister of Magno-
liza, S g., was married to Miss Maggie Lou
Rodgers, daughter of VIM. G. Rodgers. Among
the attendants was Mr.. Chas. S. Bell of Staun-
ton. The groom filed the pulpit of several
Presbyterian churches in Highland county
last year.
| Last week Ben. F. Hall of Albemarle arrived
in Harrisonburg on horseback, having behind
| him an eighteen-year- daughter of James
| M. Harris of that county. He sold the horse
| for 1926 and with the money bought tickets
| to Washington for himself and the girl. He
| leaves in Albemarle wife and three children
and ran off with the girl from boarding
| school, Mrs. Wyant's, where he had two
| daughters of his own at school,
A marriage of last week should be very en-
couraging to the Central" girls of the tele-
phone business. In Kansas City, Edward
| Smith, a prominent merchant, who had never
seen Cora M. Finch, the young lady in charge
| of the central telephone Office there, was so
struck by her sweet voice and polite answers
that he sought an Introduction. 1t turned out
| to be the cid, old story, and Miss Finch is
now Mrs. J. Edward Smith.
On Saturday night, quite number of the
| retail liquor dealers in Lynchburg closed their
doors for good, in consequence of the High
License adopted by the city council. They
say they will go into other business.
The Balcony Falls Company was organized
in Lexington last Saturday, with an author
lied capital of So, 500, 900. Col A. S. Buford,
President of the Virginia Western e. R., was
elected President, and Col. j. D. H. Ross,
Secretary and Treasurer. town will be laid
| off, furnaces and other manufactures will be
erected Oh the splendid site at the junction of
the North and James Rivers.
Gen. Phil Sheridan is making up party
of friends to take long horseback ride down
through the Valley of Virginia, the scene of
his old cavalry exploits. The party will start
some time next month. Senator Don Cameron
will be one of the number. Gen. Sheridan
and Senator Cameron visited the same section
last summer, and were cordially received and
Hospitality entertained at Woodstock and
some other points.